This paper studies practical consensus problems for continuous-time multiagent systems with heterophilous dynamics. Agents in the network tend to cease communication when they are close enough each other inspired by heterophily principle social and opinion We propose two types of state constraints on dynamical agents, which hard constraint refers exogenous restrictions that rule entire evolutio...

We suggest that moral panics exert spillover effects through stigma by mere association. Individuals are harmed even if their ties to stigmatized affiliates are heterophilous, and high-status individuals can also suffer. This creates a broadcast effect that increases the scale of the moral panic. Analyzing the U.S. film industry from 1945 to 1960, we examine how artists’ employment in feature f...

Much empirical evidence shows that individuals usually exhibit significant homophily in social networks. We demonstrate, however, skill complementarity enhances heterophily in the formation of collaboration networks, where people prefer to forge social ties with people who have professions different from their own. We construct a model to quantify the heterophily by assuming that individuals ch...

Technological discontinuities pose serious challenges to top managers’ attention. These discontinuities, which often occur at the fringes of an industry, are usually driven by innovative and (often) venture capital-backed start-ups creating new products and transforming existing industries in ways that are difficult for incumbent managers to understand against the backdrop of their existing cog...

This research examines how similarities in educational and ethnic backgrounds (status homophily), between word of mouth (WOM) participants, influences the effectiveness received offline WOM on recipient’s behavioural intentions. The similarity individuals is conceptualized as acquired homophily, whereas defined ascribed homophily. study employs scenario-based experiments, results suggest that p...

objective: we measured concept of bridging social capital by a new tool . all items used in the scale are in agreement with the theoretical literature on this concept. method: the research method was survey. the sample population was 376 students of isfahan university which were sampled through cluster sampling of multiple stages. after making a list and confirming the validity of questions by ...

This article emphasizes the importance of actor networks for implementation Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and suggests how a network perspective can contribute to our understanding (global) sustainability governance. Actor are often driven by homophily, as actors tend interact with those similar them. Yet, not least in context governance, heterophily cooperation is claimed be beneficial....

Mixed communities of organisms are found in many environments -- from the human gut to marine ecosystems and can have profound impact on health environment. Metagenomics studies genomic material such through high-throughput sequencing that yields DNA subsequences for subsequent analysis. A fundamental problem standard workflow, called binning, is discover clusters, subsequences, associated with...

We study the problem of learning to partition users into groups, where one must learn the compatibilities between the users to achieve optimal groupings. We define four natural objectives that optimize for average and worst case compatibilities and propose new algorithms for adaptively learning optimal groupings. When we do not impose any structure on the compatibilities, we show that the group...

W explore why some employees may be at a disadvantage in searching for information in organizations. The “small-world” argument in social network theory emphasizes that people are, on average, only a few connections away from the information they seek. However, we argue that such a network structure does not benefit everyone: some employees may have longer search paths in locating knowledge in ...